The 12th MLR is based out of Okinawa, Japan, and is known to the Marine Corps as a "stand-in force," meaning that -- unlike most Marine expeditionary units -- the MLR remains in the Pacific theater.

“It’s not mandatory,” Steve Bower, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said during a workshop meeting of the Cape May County Board of Commissioners. “We’re not going ...

Daniel Park before takeoff from Kadena Air Base, April 4, 2025. (Cpl. Chloe Johnson/Marine Corps) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Over the next five years Marine aviators should see more F-35s ...

The Marine Corps is about to start experimenting with ... and we put a lot more focus in the camouflage covering, concealment, with an eye towards who's looking at us from above, not just who's ...

That’s why the Marine Corps has “repurposed” some money to field the prototypes for counter-drone systems for dismounted Marines, Austin said at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space 2025 conference ...

(Evan Diaz/Navy) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The top Marine has a key objective for the Corps: getting Marine Expeditionary Units back on full deployment schedules. But he’s going to need some help.

A standard Marine Corps rifle squad will continue to be 13 Marines with at least one rifleman trained for expertise in long-range weapons like drones, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith ...

A fire broke out Friday during firearms training at a rifle range in northern Okinawa, burning more than 215,000 square feet, according to Marine Corps and Japanese officials. The blaze occurred ...

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Timothy J. Brockup Jr. operates a Skydio X2D drone at Weapons Training Battalion on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on March 7, 2025. (Cpl. Joshua Barker/U.S. Marine ...

Shifting from primarily offensive capabilities to a hybrid offensive-defensive force, the marine corps is establishing new land and sea-based units to defend missile and radar crews, local outlets ...